The presidential candidate who is running against Washington and who has called President Obama a dangerous, naive, terrorist-appeasing socialist expressed pleasure that Obama’s Federal Emergency Management Agency granted the state’s latest request to expand FEMA’s major disaster declaration to include 119 counties eligible for wildfire assistance.

The Texas Republican and Democratic parties, key state agencies and groups suing the state over redistricting cut a deal Tuesday that would extend the filing deadline to run for office until Monday while postponing any decision about the state’s primary elections. Republican Party of Texas chairman Steve Munisteri said the extension allows the state GOP to restart its candidate filing process, which the party suspended in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily block the interim redistricting plans for the Texas House, Senate and congressional districts.
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Ramiro Garza, the former Edinburg city manager, filed documents with the Texas Democratic Party to seek the nomination for Congress in the 27th congressional district, as drawn by a San Antonio-federal court. Garza is the second candidate to seek the nomination, following Armando Villalobos, the Cameron County district attorney, after former U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, announced he would not try to reclaim the seat.
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